Beer apparatus



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Patnted' 001;. 11

UNITED States f ATENI prion.

JOHN H. KERSENBROOK, OF COLUMBUS, NEBRASKA.

BEER APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484,025, dated October 11, 1892.

Application filed June 30, 1891.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN H. KEBSENBROOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oolumbu s,in the county of Platte and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Beer Apparatus; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable'others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to bottling or filling apparatus for beer or other beverages, its objects being to accomplish the perfect working thereof and for dividing the pressure more evenly.

To these ends my invention consists in improving the old construction by providing the main reservoir with two outlet-pipes that lead to two supplemental reservoirs, instead of having only one supplemental reservoir. The outlet-pipe farther from the inlet-pipe is smaller than the, other outlet-pipe, and the larger one is provided with an automatic valve and constitutes a relief-pipe.

In order that my invention may be fully understood, I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is an elevation showing the main reservoir and the supplemental reservoirs in elevation. Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross-section on line X X, Fig. 1.

Only those parts necessary to illustrate my present improvements are shown in the drawings, the parts not shown being preferably constructed in any suitable or apparent mannor.

a is the main reservoir for the beer or other beverage, and b the inlet-pipe thereof, located at one end and leading from a suitable steaming and cooling apparatus. (Not shown.)

A pair of perpendicular outlet-pipes c 0 project downwardly from the main reservoir ct, the former being larger than the latter and constitutinga relief-pipe, and both having, respectively, supplemental reservoirs d d at their lower ends. The inside diameter of pipe 0 is in practice preferably one-half an inch and of the pipe 0 preferably a quarter of an inch.

In Fig. 2 the manner of connecting pipe 0 with the main and supplemental reservoirs and the valve in the pipe is shown. Pro-- Serial No. 397.973. (No model.)

jecting downwardly from thereservoiro is a tubular socket-piece e, internally enlarged at its lower end to provide a shoulder f, against which the upper end of the pipe 0 abuts,'said pipe fitting tightly in said socket-piece. 'The lower end of the pipe 0 is fitted tightly in a similar tubular socket-piece g, projecting upwardly from the supplemental reservoir d,s aid socket-piece being also internally enlarged to provide a shoulder h.

At the lower end of the outlet-pipe c is an upward-seating button or disk-shaped valve 2, that fits snugly against the said end and is provided with a valve-stem j, that extends through the pipe. About midway of the pipe 0 is a cross-piece is, through which the valvestem passes. Screwed onto the upper end of the valve-stem is a nut, Z, and surrounding the valve-stem is a spiral springm, the upper end of which seats against the nut and the lower end against the cross-piece k. The other pipe 0' has no valve; but its passage is entirely free.

At each end of the supplemental reservoirs I provide heads n, adapted to rotate and provided with siphons or faucets 0, through which theliquor is drawn into the bottles. The construction permitting rotation of heads a forms no part of the present invention, and therefore the illustration thereof would be superfluous. This spring-valve is to be used only when the apparatus is worked under air-pressure and when used in connection with the well-known Pasteur process. The pressure at the large pipe and at the small pipe is the same, but the large pipe 0 constitutes a relief-pipe, should there be any overpressure, while the liquid is being drawn off through the small pipe 0, the valve 2' being automatically opened. The opening of this valve prevents foaming by letting the excess of liquor ofi, and as soon as the overpressure ceases the valve closes. placed under one of the siphons of the auxiliary reservoir 01. The small pipe 0' is double the size of the siphons, and the outlet-opening caused by the opening of the valve .inthe large pipe has practically no greater capacity than the outlet-opening in the small pipe, in which there is no valve. l v

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is- 1. In a beer bottling or filling apparatus To prevent waste, a bottle is which is of larger internal diameter than the other and constitutes a relief pipe and is provided with a self-regulating or automatic I 5 valve, and supplemental reservoirs at the ends of the pipes, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN H. KERSENBROCK.

Witn esses CHAS. SEGELKE, Gus. FALBAUM. 

